Different types of bodies threaten the status quo, through their physicalforms,bodily practices, or embodied identities. Such bodies, when read as text,areseen as dangerous to the institution of heterosexuality, gender stability,racialized identities, the nation, and the reproduction of future citizenry.Often, for safety purposes, these bodies must move through spacesundetected.This collection seeks to examine how various bodies both threaten the nationand are simultaneously threatened by the nation. We invite papers thattheorizethe body through varied frameworks: as readable texts, as lived bodies, assystems, as cultural constructions, etc. Ultimately, we want to investigatehow bodies threaten, trespass, spy, pass, "terrorize" and/or subvert thenationand dominant ideas of citizenship.